Taylor Lautner Recalls Being 'Scared' to Go Out in Public Amid 'Twilight' Fame

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Taylor Lautner is looking back at his time making the Twilight franchise. In an interview with Today on Thursday (January 27), the actor opened up about the attention that came with taking on his role as Jacob Black at the age of 16. Click inside to read more… Taylor shared that the fame became overwhelming and he felt he couldn’t “live a normal life.” “Not many things in life can come and happen overnight.

Fame can. It also can disappear overnight. When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, waking up and trying to just go out for a walk or go on a date and I had 12 cars waiting outside my house to follow me wherever I’m going or show up to an airport or anywhere, and you have thousands of fans screaming,” he told Jason Kennedy.

The Scream Queens actor explained that he wouldn’t go into a grocery store, movie theater or movie for 10 years, fearing that he would be recognized.

He added that his first trip to a grocery store “felt like freedom.” “I went so many years either not leaving my house, or if I did, hat, sunglasses, and just like, scared,” he said. “It built up something inside of me where, I didn’t know it, but I was scared to go out.